Another Day Will Come

Another day will come, a womanly day diaphanous in metaphor, complete in being, diamond and processional in visitation, sunny, flexible, with a light shadow. No one will feel a desire for suicide or for leaving. All things, outside the past, natural and real, will be synonyms of their early traits. As if time is slumbering on vacation… "Extend your lovely beauty-time. Sunbathe in the sun of your silken breasts, and wait until good omen arrives. Later we will grow older. We have enough time to grow older after this day…"/ Another day will come, a womanly day songlike in gesture, lapis in greeting and in phrase. All things will be feminine outside the past. Water will flow from rock's bosom. No dust, no drought, no defeat. And a dove will sleep in the afternoon in an abandoned combat tank if it doesn't find a small nest in the lovers' bed…